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DISCOURSE 



OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH 



OF 



^VM. MENUY HARRISON, 



DELIVERED APRIL 18th, 



REPEATED BY REQUEST, APRIL 25th, 1811. 



BY 



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PASTOB or SECOND AVENUE CHUKCH. 



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CHATTERTON & CRIST, PRINTERS, 

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New- York, May, 4tli 1841. 

Reverend and Dear Sir — 

Having hoard many express a desire that the Sermon delivered by you, 
on occasion of the death of the lamented WM. HENRY HARRISON, 
late President of the United States, might be published, and especially 
as we believe that its extensive circulation cannot fail to have a salutary 
eflfect, we respectfully solicit a copy of the same for that purpose. 

With great respect, yours, &c. 

JOHN NEWHOUSE, 
DAVID HARRIOT, 
H. GRIFFIN, 
WM. E. DODGE. 
REV. CHARLES S. PORTER. 



Gentlemen : 

I herewith transmit a copy of the discourse solicited by you for publi. 

cation. This I do from deference to your request, rather than from any 

convictions that I have of its merits. 

Most Respectfully Yours, 

CHARLES S. PORTER. 

To JOHN NEWHOUSE, and others. 



•ill Exchange 
Peabody last, of Balto. 
June 14 1927 



SERMON. 



ECCL. VII. 14. 

In the day of prosperity be joyful — but in the day 
of adversity consider. god also hath set the one 
over against the other to the end that ilan should 
find >rothing after him. 

This world is the scene of constant, heart 
affecting change. So universal experience 
testifies. " The morning cometh and also the 
night." The text recognizes this fact and as- 
sociates with it important practical truth. It 
teaches us that God so ordains in the adminis- 
tration of his government, and sets the day of 
adversity over against the day of prosperity. 
He does this for moral effect. " These thinsfs 
God worketh oftentimes to withdraw man from 
his purpose, and hide pride from man." Eat 
the design of God in his providences is generally 
disregarded. His goodness fails to effect re- 
pentance. Perverse man grows hard under the 
rod. Hence the propriety of the direction, " in 
the day of adversity consider," to "hear the rod 
and him that hath appointed it." And if " men 
would praise the Lord for his goodness," there 



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which man lives, that here " mercy and truth 
meet together, and righteousness and peace em- 
brace each otiier." i^lingled good and evil is a 
possible thing, while the good is not the desert 
or full reward of virtue, nor the evil the full 
amount of merited chastisement. Yet, both 
persuade reformation and holiness in heart and 
life. The design of adversity is not necessarily 
secured by having experienced it. The neces- 
sity and right use of chastisement is evinced 
by the Psalmist's testimony. " Before I was 
afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy pre- 
cepts. I thought on my ways and turned my 
feet unto thy testimonies." Corrections are con- 
sistent with divine benevolence towards man. 
Here they are disciplinary — and not retribu- 
tive. Administered bv God thev evince the exis- 
tence of wrong and the necessity of reformation 
in order to secure his favor. They are em- 
ployed as means of salvation, and not of destruc- 
tion, and the text enjoins it upon man to regard 
them in this light and improve them for this end. 

II. — Let it be considered that these adverse 
changes must have an issue. 

What that issue shall be it is for the afflicted 
themselves to say. Yvhile yet they are impen- 
ding or are just beginning to be felt, they may 
be averted or checked in their operation. So 
the dark cloud that hung portentous over 
Nineveh, was averted by their repentance. 



In the matter of Korah and Baalpeor, the 
plague wavS stayed when Aaron made an atone- 
ment, and " Phinehas executed judgment." So 
ready is he " who does not afflict willingly" to 
turn away his wrath. Individuals have had 
experience of mitigated chastisement when they 
have turned to the Lord with their whole heart. 

There is yet another issue which afflictions 
often find. Light at first, they grow heavier 
and are longer continued. The remedy is adap- 
ted to the disease. When the latter is invet- 
erate, the former must be violent. By severe 
means, nations and individuals are humbled and 
reclaimed. Prosperity returns with the con- 
ciliated favor of God. Many now bless him that 
he kindled the hres of affliction to such inten- 
sity, and continued them long enough to melt 
and subdue them. They owe their highest 
enjoyment and hopes to the redeeming influence 
of the "rod of God." 

But these dispensations are not necessarily 
effective for good. Disregarded they find issue 
in the destruction of the sufferers. So Israel 
ceased from being a nation. Other kingdoms 
and people have wasted and perished by the 
frowns of God. Individuals hardened under 
reproof, respited for a season are reserved 
with their accumulated guilt to the retributive 
awards of eternity. 

Nor are these diversified calamities of any pri- 



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vate interpretation. They are parts of God's 
universal moral government, illustrating its na- 
ture and tendency — for the instruction of all and 
the promotion of the greatest good. He who 
understands the desperate depravity of the 
human heart, can he at no loss to conceive 
what a spectacle earth would have presented 
at this moment, did not " His judgments keep 
the world in awe." 

They show the fearful odds with which oppo- 
sers of his government have to contend, and the 
hopelessness of a successful issue. For, " there 
is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel 
against the Lord." 

III. — It should be considered in justification of 
the ways of God that mercies precede judge- 
ments. 

Opening scenes in the divine administration 
are like a morning without clouds, beautiful and 
full of promise. When he laid earth's foundation 
*'the morning stars sang together and all the sons 
of God shouted for joy." The history of man 
commences with a scene in a garden. To the 
father of the new world the " bow in the cloud" 
was the symbol and the pledge of God's cove- 
nant faithfulness. How goodly were the tents 
of Jacob, and the dwellings of Israel spread 
forth as the valley, as gardens by the river's 
side in the promised land. 

Not one thing of all that God had promised 



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failed. So it might have been perpetually, had 
not his " people forgotten their resting place." 
Our republican government arose like a bright 
star to shine on the bosom of night. Distant 
nations hailed it as the dawn of a new and glo- 
rious day. In its resources that defy calculation, 
in promise of numbers and influence, upon the 
destiny of man over the globe, our nation is now 
in the language of one of her own poets, 

" The queen of the world and the child of the skies." 
This feature of the divine administration is 
discernible in the history of individuals. And 
if God sets the day of adversity over against the 
day of prosperity, as he set the seven years of 
famine in Egypt, over against the seven years of 
plenty, there is " a need be" for it. And this 
necessity is of a two-fold character. 

I. — The heart of man is lifted up with con- 
tinued success. Pride is fostered. Self confi- 
dence, presumption and impiety are the baneful 
consequences. The divine existence and the 
divine will are disregarded or denied. The tide 
of profligacy widens and deepens. The fear of 
God is cast off and prayer is restrained. The 
prevailing sentiment is that of Pharaoh's, " who 
is the Lord that I should obey his voice." This 
spirit must be overcome, this arrogance hum- 
bled, or government is at once at an end. God 
must either let loose his wrath and destroy, or 
in mercy and faithfulness afflict. Thus the way 



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of mercy is prepared. The forerunner and 
herald of the " Prince of peace" was of *' rough 
exterior." The Lord's way must be prepared in 
the wilderness, and the highway of our God in the 
desert. The means must be suited to the end. 
If our nation has ever been brought to the 
verge of ruin, the religion and morals of the 
people threatened with an entire subversion, it 
has been by prosperity. Man is ruined by hav- 
ing his carnal wishes gratified. Danger arises 
to him from this feeling of security. The sen- 
timent of the poet is the testimony of universal 
enlightened experience, 

" Far more the treacherous calm I dread, 
Than tempests bursting o'er my head." 

II. — Under a just government the guilty must 
be arraigned and punished for the abuse of good- 
ness. Possession involves obligation. If every 
good gift and every perfect gift, cometh down 
from the Father of Lights, the reception and 
enjoyment of them creates a moral obligation 
to love and serve the giver. Where this is not 
done there is sin, and sin may not pass uncan- 
celled and unchastised, either in nations or indi- 
viduals. The day of reckoning is sure to come. 

The benevolence of God is manifestly capa- 
ble of vindication, in respect to those adverse 
changes, which mankind experience, since his 
mercies precede judgments, and man's unteach- 
ableness renders severe measures necessary. 



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The evils v/hicli uatioiis and individuals expe- 
rience they procure unto themselves. Under 
such circumstances the resolution mav well be 
taken and carried out. '• Let us search and try 
our ways and turn again to the Lord." The 
benevolent intentions of God in sending afflic- 
tions are answered when the offender is re- 
claimed. And in every thing short of utter ruin 
he exacteth of the sinner less than his iniqui- 
ties deserve. Man's consideration of the Author, 
of the design of adversity, his benevolence and 
mercy in affliction, must persuade the most 
unfeigned repentance, genuine humiliation and 
contrition of soul, upon a knowledge and sense of 
sin, together with a holy fear of more severe and 
righteous judgments upon further provocation. 

The sentiment under consideration, together 
with the foregoing illustrative remarks, have 
great pertinency of application to ourselves, in 
respect to our recent national bereavement. 

I. — The rebuke is most impressive and solemn, 
regarded in its application to us as a christian 
nation. 

We are a bereaved people. The hand of God 
has been laid heavily upon us, in removing by 
death our much lamented Ciiief Magistrate. 
The nation mourns, and justly, under the stroke. 
But God has done it, and fur our good. He has 
done it in view of all that he has heretofore 
wrought for us, in viev/ of what he would have 



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us become in our character and influence as a 
christian nation upon the destinies of the world- 
Our fathers were christian men. As a writer 
has justly remarked, God sifted the nations that 
he misht plant this land with the choicest seed. 
Never were the foundations of an empire laid 
under the auspices of so mucli piety and talent as 
those of the American Republic. Regarded in 
the light of the times in which they lived, their 
private characters, practical wisdom, and their 
far reaching policy, our ancestors were wonder- 
ful men. Time evinces their greatness by the 
test of those great principles which under God 
they seized upon and brought into operation 
here. They asserted and defended witli their 
blood, those individual rights of which God has 
inalienablv possessed man, and also, the right 
of self-government as a nation. And thus we 
are a people without government, hereditary or 
despotic, and yet not a nation in anarchy. But 
being without law, we are a law unto ourselves 
bv voluntarv enactments, and our o;overnment 
is doubly dear and sacred to us, because it has 
been instituted by ourselves. 

But we have other characteristics than our 
origin, of a christian nation. What other nation 
has so eminentlv and so extensively a christian 
literature, an enlightened and spiritual ministry? 
Where can piety as here in our own land exert 
unrestrained its diffusive principles, and so rap- 



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idly accumulated moral icliuences for the eleva- 
ticD and redemption of man ? What other nation 
is so eminently a land of Bibles. Sabbath Schools 
and revivals as our own ] And what Chief Mag- 
istrate have we had since the days of Washing- 
ton, that seemed to sympathise so deeply with 
our religious interests ? Who that loves his 
country, that understands the nature of Repub- 
lican Institutions, and especially what true 
christian did not hear or read with peculiar sat- 
isfaction this sentence in his Inaugural Address. 
" I deem the present occasion sufficiently im- 
portant and solemn to justifv me in expressing 
to my fellow citizens a profound reverence for 
the christian religion, and a thorough convic- 
tion that sound morals, religious liberty, and a 
just sense of religious responsibility, are essen- 
tially connected with all true and lasting happi- 
ness, and to that good Being who has blessed us 
bv the orifts of civil and religious freedom, who 
watched over and prospered the labors of our 
fathers, and has hitherto preserved to us insti- 
tutions far exceeding in excellence those of any 
other people : let us unite in fervently commen- 
ding every interest of our beloved country in all 
future time."' 

Imbued with -such a spirit might we not hope 
as a christian nation, that our national council 
would in all future enactments reverence the 
revealed will of God, and uniformly legislate in 



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concurrence with the established principles of 
his government. His death then at such a 
crisis, is a most solemn and powerful rebuke to 
us as a christian nation. 

We are then called to consider by it. 

I. — Our ingratitude for those privileges which 
we have enjoyed. 

Our's by inheritance, we have not valued as 
they who so dearly purchased them, our social, 
civil and religious advantages. And ungrate- 
ful for these blessings w^e have not exerted our- 
selves as we sliould for the diffusion of light, the 
word of God and christian ordinances over the 
whole American soil, for the promotion of the 
spiritual well-being of passing generations, the 
perpetuation and universal dissemination of our 
privileges to the whole family of man, and to 
the end of time. So that our ingratitude is not 
only a heinous sin in itself, but is at the same 
time preventive of the most desirable results, 
God then has most justly rebuked us and set 
this day of adversity over against the day of our 
prosperity. By it we as a nation are solemnly 
called to repentance. And were this generally 
the case, what a new aspect would be put at 
once upon our religious interests ; what secu- 
rity would be given for the perpetuation of our 
Republican Institutions, and what earnests of 
an extended happy influence upon the nations 
of the earth. Who will not pray that the peo- 



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pie may so hear the rod and Him who hath 
appointed it? 

II. — The rebuke calls us seriously to consider 
the prevalence of national sins. 

That there has been and still is by us as a 
nation a gross desecration of the Sabbath, none 
will deny. That our national and state coun- 
cils have sanctioned this desecration by their 
enactments is capable of demonstration. That 
our government has been and is guilty of wrong 
done to the red man, and the black man, must 
be admitted by all. A deep-seated spirit of 
worldliness also, has alienated the church from 
her master's service. These sins have long been 
crying to heaven for vengeance. God threatens 
with his sorest judgments, the nation guilty of 
Sabbath profanation and oppression. And the 
terror of those judgments have received illustra- 
tion in the aAvful experience of nations that 
have wasted and perished from the face of the 
earth under them. And our recent bereave- 
ment shows that we are not beyond the reach 
of the hand of God, and that though we may 
be, He is not unmindful of our sins. 

And the existence and toleration of these 
national sins is the evidence of great corruption, 
and lack of moral principle throughout the 
nation. Or if we want other proof of this fact, 
see it in those instances of insubordination to 
law, and outbreakings of popular feelings. See it 



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in the numerous and gross defalcations of public 
men, in the hase management of our monied 
institutions ; in the unenforced enactments of 
our statute books, by public officers through fear 
of losing public favor, and a covetous self- 
seeking spirit to the great detriment of social 
interests. All these particulars and others 
which might be mentioned, swell the catalogue 
of our national guilt to a fearful extent, and 
which the recent afflictive dispensation of the 
Great Ruler among the nations calls upon us to 
consider, deplore and labor to remove. " Right- 
eousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach 
to any people." It hoists the flood gates of ruin, 
and springs the mines of utter extermination. 
Abundant causes of national destruction are 
already in existence, and should God take off 
restraint and bid them rage, the last page of our 
history miglit soon be written, and be one of the 
darkest pages in the annals of time. Such an 
issue nothing but timely consideration and 
reformation can avert, as God is true and just. 
III. — The rebuke is solemn and impressive, 
taken in connexion with previous chastisements. 
God has been perpetually calling our .sins to 
remembrance. Within a few years his judg- 
ments Iiave walked the land. The utter de- 
rangement of the currency ; national and state 
bankruptcy, an existing and still impending 
chastisement ; the great lire of eighteen hundred 



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and tbirty-live, in this city; wasting sickness 
in some places ; general depression of business ; 
the fearful catrastrophe of the '' Home," and the 
" Lexington ;" a protracted expensive and fruit- 
less war with the Indians on our frontiers; 
occasional specks of war with the mother coun- 
try in our horizon, sometime of menancing 
aspect ; ravages by flood and tempest to a 
limited extent ; together with the embarrass- 
ments of our benevolent Cliristian Institu- 
tions, carrying sadness and grief of heart into 
our Churches throughout the land ; these, these 
are the tones of Jehovah's remonstrance with 
us, and taken in connexion with which, the 
death of Wm. Henry Harrison, so soon after 
his induction into office, is a terrific thunder- 
peal of reproof. Will the nation be as thor- 
oughly reformed as it has been severely chas- 
tised? Will our rulers learn to think soberly 
of themselves as mortals amenable to the bar of 
God, and liable to be summoned at any moment 
by the Judge of all to render an account? Will 
the people realize the vanity of all earthly 
dependencies, and give practical regard to the 
inspired precept, " It is better to trust in the 
Lord, than to put confidence in man. It is bet- 
ter to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence 
in Princes." And O, will ail as it becomes us 
mingle godly sorrow with the national grief? 
And may we not hope that some touched with 



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sincere grief at the death of one so justly lamen- 
ted, who expressed so " profound a reverence 
for the christian religion," will be led to think 
of his death, who gave his life a ransom for 
many — the Saviour and Redeemer of the world, 
to whom through faith rulers and subjects must 
owe their hopes of heaven. Pray, O pray my 
brethren that a consummation so devoutly to 
be wished may be secured. May the national 
religious services in connexion with a day of 
fasting and prayer, recommended by the pre- 
sent Chief Magistrate, be found greatly tribu- 
tary to such a result. 

II. — As an encouragement to repentance and 
reformation, we should consider the special mer- 
cies by which God tempers our afflictions. 

I. — That God fixed the attention of the nation 
upon so worthy a candidate for the highest gift 
which they or any people under heaven have it 
in their power to bestow — that so united a suf- 
frage constituted him the head of our Republic, 
and that he was spared to shape so auspicious a 
train of influences for the promotion of the public 
welfare ; one which his successor sees no occa- 
sion to alter, and one manifestly w^orthy, as it 
has so generally secured the nation's confidence. 

II. — That the short term of cfiice wiiich the 
late Chief IMagistr ate held, was characterized by 
such a catholic spirit in his intercoiu'se vv^ith 
the members of the national council, that he 



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acknowledged the supremacy of the constitution; 
and desired with his latest breath, that his suc- 
cessor might understand and be governed by its 
principles — and above all that while he was 
daily growing in the estimation of the people, 
he professedly sought the Divine guidance in 
administering the affairs of this mighty Repub- 
lic. It is a mercy to have had such a man as 
the regularly constituted head of the nation, 
though but for one short month. May his spirit 
and principles be perpetuated as the earnest, the 
pledge of virtue and piety in the people, and the 
safe and successful administration of a truly 
Republican and Christian government. 

III. — It is a mercy taken in connexion with 
our bereavement, that in the all-wise and over- 
ruling providence of God, so worthy a man as 
the present Chief Magistrate should succeed to 
the office which he now holds — one whose 
recommendation of a national fast, commends 
him to the confidence of the people — not deem- 
ing it out of character and place as the ruler of 
a christian nation, to lend his name and influ- 
ence in promoting a practical regard of the 
Divine dispensations. How different might all 
this have been, had God so over-ruled in his 
providence. While we mourn our loss, let us 
also bless God for such a gift, and mingle with 
our thanksgivings, supplications for Divine gui- 
dance for him and those associated with him, as 



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the executive of the national will, that having 
**tho righteous in authority the people may 
rejoice," Let them be remembered in prayer, 
that the contemplated extra session of Congress 
may be guided by wisdom, at this crisis in our 
history, and so legislate as shall preserve the 
honor and secure the harmonious operations 
of our government, and the integrity of the 
several states, 

IV. — It is a mercy that by order of the late 
Postmaster General, the Sunday Mails are to 
be discontinued, in some parts of the Western 
States — that the idea of further reform is so 
grateful to the people, and has the hearty con- 
currence of many in the business community. 
Tlie Sahhath Mail is an institution of Mam- 
771071. What an evidence it would be of our 
national reformation, could this temple and idol 
of Baal be demolished. Then God, even our 
own God might bless us, 

V. — It is a mercy that at this time we have 
Bome pious rulers and judges in the land, who 
in the discharge of the duties of their office, are 
*' a terror to evil-doers and a praise to them that 
do well." May the Lord hasten the time when 
all our " rulers shall be peace, and our exactors 
righteousness," that things may yet go well in 
the land. 

And it is important that those in oflice, should 
consider, that not only docs God as chief among 



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rulers, and the judge of judges demand, but the 
times also, under the accumulative and converg- 
ing influences of the spiritual reign of Jesus 
Christ, demand that those vrho bear rule now 
be upright, temperate, exemplary, good men. 
The dark and gloomy reign of Atheism and 
Infidelity, we trust is fast passing away. The 
community at large, not acting under the influ- 
ence of party spirit, are emulous of other quali- 
fications in candidates for office and places of 
trust, than those of the bar-room politician, and 
curses and oaths, and coarseness of manners, 
are any thing but recommendations for the con- 
fidence of the people. True freemen sponta- 
neously reject the slaves of vice as their rulers, 
or subjected to their temporary authority, daily 
'* groan being burdened" with a sense of shame 
and degradation. The same considerations also, 
forcibly persuade more care on the part of the 
people, in the selection and nomination of can- 
didates for office, as well as a more eagle-eyed 
vigilance over the ballot box, and the qualifi. 
cations of those whose vote gives rulers to a free 
people. Let foreigners be subjected to the same 
rules that govern the suffrages of native citi- 
zens. We are Americans and desire no other 
name, and are willing that others should share 
our privileges. If we would honor and preserve 
our civil and religious institutions, as every 
possible consideration persuades, we shall be 



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American christians, and so glorify God, who 
has given us such an exalted birth-right — pos- 
sessed as we are, of all that can enlighten, 
elevate and ennoble man. And here let me 
say, that we can fulfil the duties of our high 
destiny as a free and christian people, only by 
attaining an all-pervading and eminent piety. 
The noblest philanthropist must be a christian. 
He then loves man as an immortal and account- 
able as well as social and intelligent being. 
The truest patriotism is a love of country, not 
only for what it is, but also for what under God, 
it may be able to accomplish for the w^ell-being 
of the entire race. And that which we should 
particularly bless God for, and consider as our 
highest privilege and glory as a nation — is our 
capability and opportunity to do so much for 
the nations of the earth, by the dissemination of 
religious truth, the basis of genuine liberty and 
republican institutions, and by our example and 
induence, commending the same to their prac- 
tical regard. And 1 am fully persuaded that 
powerful, widely extended and long continued 
revivals of religion, will do more to perpetuate 
our liberties and enhance our moral power, than 
all other causes combined. 

VI. — It is a mercy that in the providence of 
God the nation so generally sympathises in the 
bercavment. 

It shows that the great mass of the people are 



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capable of appreciating true excellence, and 
doing it homage. It shows too that the people 
are tired of strife, and sigh for peace — that they 
are emulous of being good citizens, patriots and 
christians, rather than partisans. Party spirit 
has lost much of that virulence that has char- 
acterised it in years past. And no one can doubt 
the importance of having all political feeling 
merged in a desire and effort to have the best 
rulers of every rank and grade, which the nation 
can supply without reference to party. And 
while our invaluable Constitution extends over 
us its protection, and guards our individual 
rights, let there be cherished an abiding spirit 
of subordination to law. And if something of 
moral results so desirable is secured, it will not 
be in vain that God has set the day of adversity 
so directly over against tlie day of our pros- 
perity. And may we not hope that the nation's 
tears of grief, like the salt with which Elisha 
healed the waters of Jericho, shed freely into 
the fountains of popular feeling, that were 
scarcely quiet since the recent election, will 
assuage, purify, sweeten and heal them, and 
make them fountains of life. How desirable 
all this is, the event which we deplore most 
solemnly and affectingly persuades us. 

We are all dying creatures. Death Avill soon 
bring us all where sleep the remains of our late 
President, into tlie silence and darkness of the 



tomb, where many dear to us as our own liyes, 
have already preceded us. Thither whole gen- 
erations are huiryingj as the swilt ships hasten 
to their destined port. The places that now 
know the busy multitude of earths population, 
will soon know them no more forever. Eyerv 
beating heart of the eight hundred millions of 
our globe will shortly be silent in death. What 
are things earthly ] What are thrones, crowns, 
princely-oinces and princely-estates 7 The gos- 
pel offers us more desirable honors and riches, 
together with an eiemity of glorified existence 
in the presence of God and the Lamb. Let us 
accept through faith the inestimable boon, and 
so beyond the grave rise to life and immortal 
glorv — A?:sN. 



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